Pleurothallis chionopa Luer 1980 SUBGENUS Acianthera SECTION Sicariae SUBSECTION Sicariae Luer 1986
Photo by © Tom Fox
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Snow White Pleurothallis [refers to the flowers]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Santander Colombia and Napo Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations of 1650 to 1700 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender, slightly compressed towards the apex ramicauls with 2 to 3, tubular sheaths about the base and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, suberect, ovate, acute, rounded below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the spring on a congested, distichous, .8" [2 cm] long, including the .4" [1 cm] long, peduncle, simultaneously 6 to 8 flowered inflorecence arising through a spathe at the base of the sessile leaf.
Synonyms Acianthera chionopa (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum III Luer 1986; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVI Luer 2004 as drawing fide; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Acianthera chinopa photo fide
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